A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Gin, syphilis, and lunacy.
- A history of the wheelchair.
- Why we need more black doulas.
- Teaching “Car Talk” to new docs.
- Viking women, at home and at war.
- Fairy tales may be older than we think.
- The real doctors who inspired M*A*S*H.
- The camera as a weapon of imperialism.
- Regulating sex work in Medieval Europe.
- Benjamin Franklin and an asbestos purse.
- Lynch mobs killed Latinos across the West.
- Suburban women’s plastic path to empowerment.
- A brief and depressing history of LGBT workers’ rights.
- 10 San Francisco queer party scene photos, 1986-1994.
- The Harlem Renaissance dancer fought for lesbian history.
- We’ve always hated girls online: a Wayback Machine investigation.